second day of second grade...

B had her first full day (second day of school) of second grade today! She started a new school today, here's hoping she'll make some new and wonderful friends!

B's early birthday gift!

While wondering the GP mall today, B decided that she wanted her ears pierced! D and I had always said that the girls could have them done when they were old enough to understand what it meant to have pierced ears, make the decision themselves and understood the care and keeping of pierced ears. B is almost 7 and understood all of the above and still wanted them done. So she hopped up on the chair, grabbed the bear and picked out the earrings that she would have her ear's pierced with! They were Hello Kitty earrings with pink bows!

The next step was to mark where the earrings would go and we were lucky to be able to get two girls to do the ears at once!

There were a few tears but they were gone very quickly and soon we had a very proud owner of newly pierced ears!

the key!

This is the key to our new house!

and in keeping with tradition!

We decided to keep with the traditional wedding anniversary gift for our 5th Anniversary this year... The 5th Anniversary is traditionally celebrated with a gift of "Wood".

So we bought ourselves a house!

and what a christmas present!

What a past couple months! I got notice on Nov 1 that my daycare child was not going to be back for Sept and then Nov 6 D got laid off from his job. 

What an interesting couple of months. Between D helping out others here and there, handing out a bunch of resumes and wondering what was  going to happen, it was an intense time!

Then D missed a phone call from a company "up North" that his friend had put in for him. A couple days later they called back and a few days before Christmas we got an awesome early Christmas present! They offered him a job. Of course they offered it to him a few days before Christmas, and he had to leave a few days after, it was a very crazy and intense time!

Guess What!?!?!?!

B lost her first tooth today!

I had to twist and pull a little bit, but the tooth has been super wiggly for a while and it needed to come out as the adult tooth was coming up behind it.

She's super proud of her lost tooth!

It's sitting in her "Tooth Fairy Box" just waiting for tonight's arrival!

Haircuts!!

Both the girls got haircuts! I did C's myself as she only needed 3 tiny little snips in the back, B had accidentally stuck her sucker in C's hair and we just couldn't get the bottom looking nice again. It cleaned up the bottom of C's hair but isn't super noticable.

B also got her hair cut. She got about 6 inches cut off this time! It went from the middle of her back to just above her shoulders!

A new "year"!

B started her second year of school today and while she has to go back to her "old" Kindy classroom it's the start of GRADE ONE!

Got the bug...

the camping bug that is. We had much fun camping with family this weekend at the beach! Lots of sand, sun and cards!

Maybe one day in the future a trailer is in our future...

Beach fun!

The girls and I decided to head to the beach for the morning!

It's wasn't particulary sunny, but it was warm and not too cloudy. We had a blast playing in the sand, jumping the waves as the tide came in and throwing rocks into the water.

When we were getting into the car B turned to me and said "Mom, you always know what will make us happy..." Awww I love her!

Not-So-Secertly, the beach makes me super happy too! I swear it's the cure to anything!